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Milena Novy-Marx

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sustainable Development, University of Rochester

Before teaching at the University of Rochester, Milena Novy-Marx worked at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, co-leading a two-year effort to develop the foundation’s initiative on global migration and human mobility. She also managed the foundation's work on international development, where she led an effort to create a new, interdisciplinary master's in development practice degree at universities worldwide. Previously, she worked for the World Bank, USAID, and as an economic consultant on antitrust issues. She's a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former board member of the African Economic Research Consortium. A Fulbright Scholar, she earned her BA in political science from Yale University, and her MPA in economic policy and PhD with a focus on economics and development from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.